1926 in philosophy

Events

Publications

• Jan Smuts, Holism and Evolution (1926) [Note: The term holism was coined by the author.]
• Nicolai Hartmann, Ethik (1926)
• Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy (1926)
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, The Hindu View of Life (1926)

Births

• January 3 - Robert Misrahi (died 2023)
• January 4 - Marcus George Singer (died 2016)
• January 14 - Peter Winch, British philosopher of social science (died 1997)^[1]
• January 17 - Shizuteru Ueda, Japanese philosopher of religion^[2] (died 2019)
• February 1 - Leonardo Polo (died 2013)
• April 6 - Edward Grant (died 2020)
• April 9 - John E. Thomas (died 1996)
• April 29 - Renford Bambrough (died 1999)
• June 6 - José María Valverde (died 1996)
• June 25 - Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973)
• June 26 - Karel Kosík (died 2003)
• July 8 - David Malet Armstrong (died 2014)
• July 31 - Hilary Putnam (died 2016)
• August 2 - Herbert McCabe (died 2001)
• August 7 - Arthur Chute McGill, Canadian-born American theologian and philosopher (died 1980)
• August 12 (probable) - Jamal Khwaja, Indian philosopher (died 2020)
• August 18 - Herbert Thomas Mandl (died 2007)
• August 21 - Erwin Marquit (died 2015)
• September 1 - Stanley Cavell (died 2018)
• September 23 - Hugo Adam Bedau (died 2012)
• September 24 - Louis H. Mackey (died 2004)
• October 15 - Michel Foucault (died 1984)
• October 29 - Joel Feinberg (died 2004)
• September 4 - George Dickie (died 2020)
• September 4 - Ivan Illich (died 2002)
• October 9 - Hans Skjervheim (died 1999)
• December 13 - Truman G. Madsen (died 2009)
• December 25 - Eugene Gendlin, Austrian-born American philosopher (died 2017)
• date unknown
  • Abdoldjavad Falaturi, German scholar of Iranian origin (died 1996)
  • William Alvin Howard
  • Kai Nielsen, Canadian philosopher (died 2021)
  • Hartley Rogers, Jr., mathematician working in recursion theory (died 2015)

Deaths

• March 7 - Carl Nicolai Starcke (born 1858)
• April 17 - Anna Willess Williams (born 1852)
• June 21 - Paul Souriau (born 1852)
• September 15 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken (born 1846)
• December 23 - Swami Shraddhanand (born 1856)